Chapter D: Appleton & Co.'s Publications

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF HERBERT SPENCER.

_EDUCATION: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical._ 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.25.

CONTENTS: What Knowledge is of most Worth?--Intellectual
Education.--Moral Education.--Physical Education.

_SOCIAL STATICS._ By HERBERT SPENCER. New and revised edition, including "The Man _versus_ the State," a series of essays on political tendencies heretofore published separately. 12mo. 420 pages. Cloth, $2.00.

Having been much annoyed by the persistent quotation from the old
edition of "Social Statics," in the face of repeated warnings, of
views which he had abandoned, and by the misquotation of others
which he still holds, Mr. Spencer some ten years ago stopped the
sale of the book in England and prohibited its translation. But the
rapid spread of communistic theories gave new life to these
misrepresentations; hence Mr. Spencer decided to delay no longer a
statement of his mature opinions on the rights of individuals and
the duty of the state.

CONTENTS: Happiness as an Immediate Aim.--Unguided Expediency.--The
Moral-Sense Doctrine.--What is Morality?--The Evanescence
[? Diminution] of Evil.--Greatest Happiness must be sought
indirectly.--Derivation of a First Principle.--Secondary Derivation
of a First Principle.--First Principle.--Application of this First
Principle.--The Right of Property.--Socialism.--The Right of
Property in Ideas.--The Rights of Women.--The Rights of
Children.--Political Rights.--The Constitution of the State.--The
Duty of the State.--The Limit of State-Duty.--The Regulation of
Commerce.--Religious Establishments.--Poor-Laws.--National
Education.--Government Colonization.--Sanitary
Supervision.--Currency Postal Arrangements, etc.--General
Considerations.--The New Toryism.--The Coming Slavery.--The Sins of
Legislators.--The Great Political Superstition.

_THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY._ The fifth volume in the International Scientific Series. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

CONTENTS: Our Need of it--Is there a Social Science?--Nature of the
Social Science.--Difficulties of the Social Science.--Objective
Difficulties.--Subjective Difficulties, Intellectual.--Subjective
Difficulties, Emotional.--The Educational Bias--The Bias of
Patriotism.--The Class-Bias.--The Political Bias.--The Theological
Bias.--Discipline.--Preparation in Biology.--Preparation in
Psychology.--Conclusion.

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country."--_St. Louis Post-Dispatch._

_THE HOUSEHOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS PEOPLE._ FOR YOUNG AMERICANS. By EDWARD EGGLESTON. Richly illustrated with 350 Drawings, 75 Maps, etc. Square 8vo. Cloth, $2.50.

_FROM THE PREFACE._

The present work is meant, in the first instance, for the young--not alone for boys and girls, but for young men and women who have yet to make themselves familiar with the more important features of their country's history. By a book for the young is meant one in which the author studies to make his statements clear and explicit, in which curious and picturesque details are inserted, and in which the writer does not neglect such anecdotes as lend the charm of a human and personal interest to the broader facts of the nation's story. That history is often tiresome to the young is not so much the fault of history as of a false method of writing by which one contrives to relate events without sympathy or imagination, without narrative connection or animation. The attempt to master vague and general records of kiln-dried facts is certain to beget in the ordinary reader a repulsion from the study of history--one of the most important of all studies for its widening influence on general culture.

"Fills a decided gap which has existed for the past twenty years in
American historical literature. The work is admirably planned and
executed, and will at once take its place as a standard record of
the life, growth, and development of the nation. It is profusely
and beautifully illustrated."--_Boston Transcript._

"The book in its new dress makes a much finer appearance than
before, and will be welcomed by older readers as gladly as its
predecessor was greeted by girls and boys. The lavish use the
publishers have made of colored plates, woodcuts, and photographic
reproductions, gives an unwonted piquancy to the printed page,
catching the eye as surely as the text engages the mind."--_New
York Critic._

"The author writes history as a story. It can never be less than
that. The book will enlist the interest of young people, enlighten
their understanding, and by the glow of its statements fix the
great events of the country firmly in the mind."--_San Francisco
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